Introduction to Collaborative Provision

This introductory session will outline the operational roles and responsibilities in the management and oversight of collaborative academic partnerships. The session is primarily designed for staff who are new to working in university academic partnerships but more experienced colleagues are welcome to come along and share your knowledge!

This session will provide a ‘back to basic’ outline of what it’s like to work with collaborative partners, providing information on the varied aspects of the partnerships management and oversight role.

During the session we will also be hearing about what academic partners need from their university/awarding body and what makes a good partnership manager from their perspective.

The session will explore the academic role and how the partnership managers and academics can best work together to support the partnerships and the oversight of academic standards.

It's a really practical session, which will provide an opportunity to ask questions and have an informal conversation about all the joys of working in this area

PROGRAMME

10.00 – 10.05 Welcome and introduction

Diane Glautier, on behalf of CVU

10.05 – 11.00 ‘A week in the life’…

Academic Partnerships Team, University of East London – Charne Green, Tatiana Mendez, Victoria Hunt, Howaida Barakat, Teagan Hickey, Hayley Price

Each Academic Partnership Manager in the team will provide a short overview of their role – ‘a week in the life’… The Team will provide examples of their experience from their current and previous roles and highlight some of the challenges and opportunities and tell you how it really is! There will be an opportunity for questions at the end of the presentations.

11.00 – 11.45 Collaborative Quality Assurance and Enhancement

Katie Chandler - Senior Collaborative Provision Officer, Quality Assurance & Enhancement, Falmouth University

This session will provide an outline of how a lead provider can approach quality monitoring and assurance with partners to enable both the University to get the assurances it needs and support the delivery partner to enhance their provision. The presentation will provide an insight into a recent review of how quality is looked at with partners and some things that have worked well and not so well along the way

11.45 – 11.55 Break

11.55- 12.25 A View from an Academic Partner

Tina Zoi – Academic Registrar & College Secretary and Krystallia Antoniadi – Quality Executive, Metropolitan College, Greece.

This session will cover what a partner needs from their awarding body and most importantly, what they need from their Partnership Manager. How can the Partnership Managers best serve the needs of the partner whilst maintaining a compliance and oversight role?

12.25 – 12.55 The Academic Oversight

Steph Messner - Academic Lead, Quality - School of Health, Sport and Bioscience University of East London

An outline of the academic role in the management and oversight of academic partnerships. What is the role of the academic link tutor and the School/Faculty? This session will outline the importance of the academic oversight of courses delivered at partners and how this role works in synergy with the Partnerships Manager and other areas across the University and the partner.

12:55 – 13.00 Closing Remarks

13:00 Close